My Favorite Films of 2006

"One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy."

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by William Monahan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."

Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
Music by David Julyan
Cinematography by Wally Pfister
Editing by Lee Smith

"Tell my son the time that his father died. Tell him..."
"No. He won't even know your name."

Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Written by Guillermo del Toro
Music by Javier Navarrete
Cinematography by Guillermo Navarro
Editing by Bernat Vilaplana

"This is alcohol."
"Well, you're in middle school now."

Directed by Bong Joon Ho
Written by Bong Joon Ho, Won-jun Ha and Chul-hyun Baek
Music by Byung-woo Lee
Cinematography by Hyung Koo Kim
Editing by Sun-Min Kim

"As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices."

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Written by Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Music by John Tavener
Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing by Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez

"Zhensheng, promise me you won't seek revenge. Revenge will only bring us more bloodshed."

Directed by Ronny Yu
Written by Chris Chow and Chi-long To
Music by Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography by Hang-Sang Poon
Editing by Virginia Katz and Richard Learoyd

"Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago."

Directed by Edward Zwick
Written by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Eduardo Serra
Editing by Steven Rosenblum

"Luck ran out. This was too good to last."

Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Michael Mann
Music by John Murphy
Cinematography by Dion Beebe
Editing by William Goldenberg and Paul Rubell

"Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?"

Directed by Martin Campbell
Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
Music by David Arnold
Cinematography by Phil Meheux
Editing by Stuart Baird

"A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try."

Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Written by Michael Arndt
Music by Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa
Cinematography by Tim Suhrstedt
Editing by Pamela Martin

"People languish for years with partners who are clearly from another planet. We want so much to believe that we've found our other. It takes courage to recognise the real as opposed to the convenient."

Directed by Richard Eyre
Written by Patrick Marber
Music by Philip Glass
Cinematography by Chris Menges
Editing by John Bloom and Antonia Van Drimmelen

"Is there some reason that my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?"

Directed by David Frankel
Written by Aline Brosh McKenna
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography by Florian Ballhaus
Editing by Mark Livolsi

"If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island."

Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis
Music by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Cinematography by Tom Stern
Editing by Joel Cox and Gary Roach

"But inevitably, the further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you. And they do. Certain. It will not fail."

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Russell Gewirtz
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Matthew Libatique
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"Who are you? What's your name? Do you have a wife? A girlfriend? Because if you do, I'm gonna find her. I'm gonna hurt her. I'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name. And then I'm gonna find you, and kill you right in front of her."

Directed by J.J. Abrams
Written by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography by Dan Mindel
Editing by Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

"I guess I'd rather talk with you about bugs than nothing with nobody."

Directed by William Friedkin
Written by Tracy Letts
Music by Brian Tyler
Cinematography by Michael Grady
Editing by Darrin Navarro

"This may sound like gibberish to you, but I think I'm in a tragedy."

Directed by Marc Forster
Written by Zach Helm
Music by Britt Daniel and Brian Reitzell
Cinematography by Roberto Schaefer
Editing by Matt Chesse

"Well, you can be wrong a million times. You only gotta be right once."

Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio
Music by Jared Lee Gosselin and Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Paul Cameron
Editing by Jason Hellmann and Chris Lebenzon

"You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?"

Directed by Larry Charles
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips
Music by Erran Baron Cohen
Cinematography by Luke Geissbuhler and Anthony Hardwick
Editing by Craig Alpert, Peter Teschner and James Thomas

"Do i really want to expose the world to this?"

Directed by Joachim Trier
Written by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Music by Ola Fløttum and Knut Schreiner
Cinematography by Jakob Ihre
Editing by Olivier Bugge Coutté

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it."

Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography by Clark Mathis
Editing by Sean Albertson

"So when you say psychosomatic, you mean like he could start a fire with his thoughts?"

Directed by Adam McKay
Written by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell
Music by Alex Wurman
Cinematography by Oliver Wood
Editing by Brent White

"Fuck you, Ben Franklin."

Directed by James Wong
Written by James Wong and Glen Morgan
Music by Shirley Walker
Cinematography by Robert McLachlan
Editing by Chris G. Willingham

"I never wanted to go to war. I just wanted to fly."

Directed by Werner Herzog
Written by Werner Herzog
Music by Klaus Badelt
Cinematography by Peter Zeitlinger
Editing by Joe Bini

"The only constant is change."

Directed by Ryan Fleck
Written by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Music by Broken Social Scene
Cinematography by Andrij Parekh
Editing by Anna Boden